Watkins made a motion to table recommended appointments until county attorney John Harrington was present. The motion died as a result of not getting a second.

Barden and Dr. Milner will be submitted to the hospital board for succeeding their current positions on the board and the hospital board may accept or decline Sheffield or Jones to fill the position currently held by Sheffield.

Commissioners began at the May 20 meeting with discussion on appointments to the hospital board.

According to Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A), Section 31-7-72, subsection b, a list of three eligible persons to the board of the hospital authority should have been submitted to the hospital board at their next regular meeting. The hospital board would have the opportunity to select one of the three persons named in such list or decline to select any of the persons named in the list. If the hospital board declined the three names on the list, then notification to the governing body (Dodge County) would occur.

Upon receipt of notification that the hospital board declined to select any of the persons named in the governing body’s list, the governing body would have the opportunity to submit a second list of three eligible persons, no one of who was named on the first list, to the board of the hospital authority. The hospital board at its next regular meeting after receipt of the second list would have the opportunity to select one of the three persons named in the second list.

The confusion of hospital board appointments came due to a resolution that was adopted by the Georgia General Assembly in March 1993 by former state representative Terry L. Coleman. In that resolution, the board of the Dodge County Hospital Authority’s number of board members was increased from seven to nine. However, the appointments to fill those positions should have still followed the provisions of subsection b of code section 31-7-72 of the O.C.G.A.

Interim Dodge County Manager Bobby Peacock informed commissioners of a Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG) from the Georgia Department of Transportatio in the amount of $545,000.00 had been received. A total of 10.06 miles of resurfacing in Dodge County will be completed with these funds. The county will match the grant with $59,869.00 in local funds.

Commissioners went into executive session to discuss a property acquisition. After the meeting reconvened, Watkins made a motion to ask attorney Harrington to draw up a resolution (for the county) to accept ownership of the National Guard Armory building from the State Property Commissioner. The motion passed unanimously.

The next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 15, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.

Interim Dodge County Manager Bobby Peacock ??? What, hasn't he been there now well over a year+. Are they ever going to hire someone or make him official?? Oh, I forgot they don't work like that. They want someone they can control who does not know any better. Heck they haven't even redrawn the districts as required after the Census, which was in 2010! Now we face a 2nd County Election without reapportioned districts----John Battle this is what you should be questioning.

Why does everyone think everyone is always hiding something? We have got to come together as a community and support each other. I'm so dismayed that so many people on this blog always look for the worst in our community. No one is perfect!!

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